Nowadays user interface and experience are more important now than ever. If you're building a digital identity, whether it be for a website or application, "look and feel" play an extremely important part. Today, I'm going to show you how to use native HTML5 video, and implement it in the background of your site. All without using a plugin or Flash. We'll take a look at some of the native video controls too, to make sure that a user's experience is fully enhanced. Browser Compatibility: As we mentioned before, this technology is developed in HTML5, so it is supported by…

You can create a responsive, animated progress bars like in Windows 7 using pure CSS3. I haven't used any image in this tutorial. Resize your browser window to see the responsiveness. HTML <div class="bar"> <div class="blue loader"> <h3>;/h3> <span class="inner"> </span> </div> </div> CSS Next, we’ll create the background for the loader. The animated portion will be a translucent overlay, so you can easily change the colour and background properties if you chose to do so later on. I’ve used a gradient background but this can easily be swapped out for a solid colour or background image. ., .inner{ ;…

The Geolocation API is a new technology that’s introduced by W3C – the same organization behind HTML5. Probably for that reason, it is often correlated and grouped with HTML5 in many books and references, although it has actually nothing to do with HTML5 technically. In this post, we are going to use the API in its simplest form; we will create a set of functions to retrieve user’s location and show it in map with Google Maps. Let’s take a look. Why Geolocation API ? In many cases, obtaining user location would be extremely useful to establish better user experience, for…

One year ago, I had posted a puzzle game called “Doraemon Puzzle”. It was developed with the help of most powerful JavaScript library jQuery. Now, I have developed a game using CSS only. Have you remembered a favorite game which we always played in school/collage days? Yes this is "Tic-Tac-Toe". My version works as any normal Tic-tac-toe game would: 2 players can play against each other, it can result in either a win or a tie. Players can also restart the game. HTML <div class="tic-tac-toe"> <input id="block1-1-1" type="radio" class="player-1 left first-column top first-row first-diagonal turn-1"/> <label for="block1-1-1" class="turn-1"></label> <input id="block1-1-2" type="radio"…

Here is a pure CSS experimental work to create floating bubbles without using JavaScript. These animated bubbles are also with popping effect. All these animation is created by Pure CSS. For our little demo, we use a simple image for the conical flask and then create the bubbles entirely with markup and CSS. The HTML <div id="beaker"> <span class="bubble"> <span class="glow"> </span> </span> </div> With our bubbles all made, now we need them to act like bubbles. We could use JavaScript but that's no fun. Just use CSS! There are a few things we need to animate. The vertical positioning…

Hi friends, today we are going to see a cool example of animated 3D Background using HTML5 <canvas> and javascript. The <canvas> element is part of HTML5 and allows for dynamic, script-able rendering of 2D shapes and bitmap images. It is a low level, procedural model that updates a bitmap and does not have a built-in scene graph. The <canvas> element is only a container for graphics. You must use a script to actually draw the graphics. Canvas has several methods for drawing paths, boxes, circles, text, and adding images. What is canvas element in HTML? Canvas was initially introduced…

I hope you have enjoyed my previous article about 3D Parallax effected webpage. Now, like previous year, on occasion of Christmas and winter Holidays, I thought to wish this festival by create a wonderful webpage greetings too. So, today I had created this Christmas greeting card using 3D Parallax effect with help of CSS3 and JavaScript. I hope you all will enjoy this holiday and my web-card too :) . Introduction - What is Parallax? Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two…

Parallax effect is a long-known and widely used animation effect. Lately, the parallax effect has become a wide-spread and quite a trend element in web design, often referred to as "parallax scrolling". Internet if full on many great examples of application of this effect in web design. As I planned to create a cool parallax animated background, my first goal was to write the shortest and simplest code to achieve maximum awesomeness! I’ll show you how I did it. In this tutorial, I’ll teach you the simplest parallax scrolling technique. Here, I am going to introduce you, a most flexible/responsive slider Parallaxfx_DG. It is…

We've all seen margin: 0 auto; for horizontal centering, but margin: auto;has refused to work for vertical centering… until now! But actually (spoiler alert!). I'm not the pioneer of this method, and it may even be a common technique, however, most vertical centering articles never mention it and I had never seen it until I dug through the comments section of a particular article. There, Simon linked to this jsFiddle that blew every other method out of the water (the same method was also mentioned by Priit in the comments). Researching further, I had to use very specific keywords to find some other sources for this method. I had finally searched some useful techniques in a single place…

Today, I will describe you how to create cool CSS3 modal popup windows (or boxes). Literally, not so long ago, in order to achieve such effects, we used jQuery. But, as it turned out, CSS3 has all the necessary tools for making modal windows too. In our demonstration I have prepared single page with two popup elements: join form and login form. Welcome to test results (domo) and understand how it was made. HTML First, lets create the main HTML markup. As you can see – the structure is quite easy. Here are one panel with buttons and two popups.…